The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-15
Labor and Industrial Notes.

Philadelphia Record.
Four more silk mills have been projected.
Rolled steel car wheels will soon be made at
Norristown.
Since the first Of the month 10.602 men have
gone on strike.
Coal beds are being found in,NIexico four thou
sand feet above the sea.
In a great many cases the hardware manu-
facturers in New England are running day and
night.
$109 900 per month There will be work all
winter.
The prospects for trade in the machinery
lines are very good, and there will be very few
idle mechanics this winter.
The Pullmans have added a shop 300 feet
square, where forty five cars can be built at one
time. The force will be increased 500 men.
new system has been devised fOr. manufact.
urine metal tubes in England. 1tis spoken OF
as a wonderful advance in that branch OF indus
try.
Edison's electric locomotives are attracting
great attention in England. Six of them have
been running on a short lIne and favorable COM
ments are being made.
The Panama canal builders are importing ne
groes from Liberia, as they have been found to
be proof against every disease of the canal 10.
cality. The Panama graveyard Is very large
An electric yacht has just been built with the
Edison appliances. The armature makes 600
revolutions minute. The criticism has been
made that the rotation of the dynamo creates
oscillation.
Notwithstanding the possibility of less bust
ness in iron making, great many new mills
are being talked of. and the expansion of capa-
city so far this year has been as much as during
the two years previous.
Some cities to the west of Chicago finding
that the interstate freight rates are giving them
some advantages over Chicago, and jobbers who
have heretofore been doing business In Chicago
have found it cheaper to locate at Davenport
ana some other cities.
Edward Atkinson of Boston, says that there
is improved land within fifty miles of London
which will not bring 500 per acre, and yet
thousands of Englishmen are travelling 1000 to
5. 900 miles from home and paying railroad cor
pors lions in the West from $40 to $50 per
A Pueblo .man has invented q street-car
motor that will drive out cables and electricity.
Ordinary gas from the street mains will be
used Plttsburg man IS out with what ap-
pears to be better patent for gas motor,
which gives four impulses per revolution, in
stead of one or two.
The latent hostility of American workingmen
to Capitalization of any kind, of a trades
union character, is leading to the increase OF
national trades-unions under the Knights of
Labor and under the Federation. Five branches
OF trade now organizing, and steps are being
undertaken to organize about dozen more
MIR. Atkinson estimated that $3.50, 900, 600 has
been loaned on Western farm mortgages, and
that the number of outstanding is 81 900. His
returns from a great many quarters show that
the rate of interest has declined from 10 per
cent. to 81 and y per cent; and that the pres
spread and almost universal prosperity.
In certain quarters in the West and South
west there are large settlements of Idle men who
congregate in tho off season, in q halfwild wav,
at very low price, waiting for the return of the
next season. They hunt and fish much as
possible and 60 travelling about trying to secure
work They do not belong to the tramp frater-
nifty, but are simply making the best OF the dull
season.
Railroad building throughout the Southwest
wears a booming aspect. A road has just been
completed from Kansas City to Birmingham.
Competition on two three of tho transconti-
mental lines is becoming very severe. and some
of the curves are being Strengthened out. One
road in particular intends to shorten the road
to the Pacific coast 169 miles. Last week work
began on a new road from New Orleans to Fort
Scott to be $50 miles long.
Very extensive coal fields are to be developed
in the Southwest and West, among which is the
Trinidad deposit 1t is intended to supply rail-
ways and manufacturing interests. Railroads
will be built to the mires. The government has
snent over So O00 900 in improving the great
Kanavha river, and G. 2. Huntington claims
that when this region shall have been properly
| improved Pittsburg coal will be driven out Of
several Ohio valley markets.
Large quantities OF Southern hard woods
| crowding their way into Northern markets.
Poplar is being shipped to nearly every State
| north of the Ohio. Yellow pine is being shipped
| more largely every year. and cypress and sap
/ are coming into more general use. Ii has been
| estimated that between 200 and 300 saw mills
/ will be erected within the next six months in
| the Southern States. Pine land is being bought
| up both North and South, and II is q difficult
| matter now to.fnd a large tract within an easy
| distance of a market